The films of Martin Scorsese usually involve protagonists being caught in an existentialist quicksand where the more they try and find their goal in life the more they sink into a problem of their own making. For example Robert Aldrich is considered a ' sadistic ' director and whileis films may be tame compared to the video nasty era the likes of TOO LATE THE HERO and ULZANA'S RAID do still come across as compellingly blood thirsty and violent.

7.5/10Īn auteur is regarded as a director who has a running theme throughout their resume. To which it leaves us with an impacting, intriguing and uneasily enjoyable movie. It's not a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination, but it has good intentions in there, even if not all of them are fully realised. So is it glamorising a touchy subject? Well yes it is, if you are a football hooligan yourself that is. The fight scenes are grim and look authentic and the soundtrack rocks the large one too. OK we probably could have done with Vinnie Jones or Ross Kemp in there somewhere, but it's a low budget movie you know!. It stars Danny Dyer, Love has assembled, what is for the material at hand, the perfect cast. Does he think that hoards of footie hooligans, who delight in knocking seven bells of tar out of each other, want to be liked? The Football Factory is directed by Nick Love and based on the book of the same name written by John King. I read a review of The Football Factory that said the characters are so 'orrible' and 'hateful' it was impossible to like them at all! You have to think that that particular reviewer knows nothing about the subject matter of the film he was writing about.

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